After Life and Death

Is Arcadia a place in Alaska that is the last human refuge in a planet over-run by zombies? And where does the omnipresent big brother – the Umbrella Corporation – fit into all of this? Maybe none of it matters. Resident Evil – Afterlife takes off from where the previous editions of the successful franchise have left off – i.e. killing zombies – to more zombie mauling. On to the (thin) storyline. Alice (Mila Jovovich) sets off on a search for Arcadia – and the search leads away from Alaska to Seattle – where she finds a bunch of human survivors, up against – you guessed it – hordes of zombies. But is that all that they are up against, or are they also on the periphery of another great Umbrella Corporation setup. A movie that delivers on its promise of being identical to all its previous editions, and wholesome if not quite family fun

12/20